Albert Bierstadt almost closed the year 2013 without hitting the million-dollar mark.
Then, in December, both Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York sold Bierstadt oils that crossed the barrier: 1898’s Rocky Mountain Waterfall, hammering in at Christie’s for $1.1 million, and 1867’s Lake in the Sierra Nevada, at Sotheby’s, for $1.875 million. Christie’s still holds the auction record for a Bierstadt artwork, at $6.345 million, for the 1862 oil Indians Spear Fishing.
The year’
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